- Saïd Taghmaoui
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birthplace =Villepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis ,France Saïd Taghmaoui (born
July 19 ,1973 ) is a Frenchactor andscreenwriter .He was born in the
Paris ian suburb ofVillepinte, Seine-Saint-Denis ,France , into a large family (nine siblings total) of Moroccan berber parents. He dropped out of school to become a boxer and eventually was ranked number 2 in his weight class in France.Later he met
Mathieu Kassovitz and together, they co-wrote the script for the award winning film "La Haine " (about race and violence in the suburban ghettoes of Paris). Taghmaoui also played one of the main characters in the film and was nominated for aCésar Award in1996 (Most Promising Actor) for his performance. He has performed in many films since then.Taghmaoui is best known in American cinema as the US trained philosophical Iraqi interrogator Captain Said in "Three Kings".
Said recently starred in the
2008 American film Vantage Point, playing the leader of a terrorist group that plotted to kidnap the US president.elected Filmography
* "
LOST " (2009 ) [Jensen, Jeff "Doc", (September 10, 2008) " [http://hollywoodinsider.ew.com/2008/09/lost-exclusive.html "Lost" exclusive: The second half of season 5's new mystery duo ] ", "Entertainment Weekly ". Retrieved on September 10, 2008.]
* "" (2009)
* "House of Saddam " (2008BBC mini-series )
* "Vantage Point" (2008)
* "Kandisha " (2008)
*"Traitor (2008)
* "The Kite Runner" (2007)
* "O Jerusalem" (2006)
* "I ♥ Huckabees " (2004)
* "Hidalgo" (2004)
* "Spartan" (2004)
* "Crime Spree " (2003)
* "The Good Thief " (2002)
* "Ali Zaoua " (2000)
* "Three Kings" (1999)
* "Hideous Kinky" (1998 )
* "La Haine " (1995)References
External links
*imdb name|id=0846548|name=Saïd Taghmaoui
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